School and Teacher’s House Wilberfoss East Riding

WILBERFOSS —The new village school has been opened. The Rev. Nicholas Walton, with the principal landowner (Lord Leconfield), and the tenant farmers and tradesmen, formed a committee, and all subscribed liberally towards so desirable an object. The school has a master's residence attached to it. It has been erected from designs prepared by Mr. Whitaker, of Manchester (formerly of Wilberfoss); and the contractor for the works was Mr. Richard Horner, builder, Bishopthorpe. It is proposed to erect fence walls round the school grounds, which (with other minor matters required) will bring the cost up to nearly £1,000 [Builder 8 November 1873 page 895]

The school (mixed), with teacher's house attached, was built in 1873, for the accommodation of 100 children, and has an average attendance of 54 [Bulmer's Directory of 1892].

Reference           Builder 8 November 1873 page 895